tom thumb was a big pedestrianism fan, not literally. but he enjoyed pedestrianism a lot. and i guess was fairly easy to spot in the crowd. i don't know how. but word would get around that tom thumb was in the arena. at one point, there were riots. people rioted to get into pedestrianism matches. there was a riot in new york where they oversold tickets to the match and people were still gathered outside trying to get in at midnight sunday night and they heard the roar of the crowd inside and began storming madison square garden and there was a very famous, infamous police captain, alexander williams. his nickname was clubber. you can deduce from that what you want. but clubber decided that he had to beat back these people who were trying to invade the garden and it turned into a riot and a lot of people say it was the worst riot in new york since the civil war draft riots ten years before. it inflamed passions deeply. the pedestrians themselves became the first celebrity athletes in the united states. their pictures appeared on the early trading cards. daniel o'leary the i

tom thumb was a big pedestrianism fan, not literally. but he enjoyed pedestrianism a lot. and i guess was fairly easy to spot in the crowd. i don't know how. but word would get around that tom thumb was in the arena. at one point, there were riots. people rioted to get into pedestrianism matches. there was a riot in new york where they oversold tickets to the match and people were still gathered outside trying to get in at midnight sunday night and they heard the roar of the crowd inside and began storming madison square garden and there was a very famous, infamous police captain, alexander williams. his nickname was clubber. you can deduce from that what you want. riot in new york since the civil war draft riots ten years before. it inflamed passions deeply. the pedestrians themselves became the first celebrity athletes in the united states. their pictures appeared on the early trading cards. daniel o'leary the irish immigrant from chicago he was the spokesman for a brand of salt. don't know what the connection was. but apparently he liked that salt. there were corporate

i was or want to briefly talk about the pedestrian safety improvement this area can use subsequential pedestrian improvements so we've been working on this boo-boo fore the moscone expansion as well as the selma capitalization it's come down to that the plan we'll be doing for the area will include a piece that will be implemented by moscone as well as other pieces that will be implemented through the impact fees with the projects and selma. as someone pointed out mr. harmon we're looking at the eir is looking specifically at the possibility of turning fulsome and howard into two way streets it this will prove peaceful and make that more pedestrian friendly and there's a lot of support from the community to make the traffic work, of course. there's a number of things we're collectively working on to improve pedestrian safety and commissioner antonini and i think it sounds like a wonderful improvement and since the last time we talked about this in the right direction i have questions. i understand that we're going to have an increasing a captain of the north and south see 5 hundred an

from my standpoint you've heard about the pedestrian improvements i highly agree that that will improve any pedestrian experiences as a resident of the area particularly along third street that i walk sometimes several times a day which right now if you have been down on the block of fulsome >> howard it is on a experience that will improve it quite a bit and break up the block. mucus center has been from my point of view a very good neighbor and contributes is a lot of vital to the neighborhood people that attend the meetings at mucus center spend money and support our local businesses the bars and restaurants and galleries in the neighborhood and i'd like to see this continue. so, please support the project. thank you >> thank you. >> good afternoon, everyone. commissioners my name is joe ann desmond a member of the local 16 i'm here to speak on behalf of the mucus expansion project? a wufr opportunity for san francisco to continue to attract high-level conferences as well as maintain the current efforts that be growing. without the mucus expansion san francisco risks losing how profi

frank hart was a very famous black pedestrian. won a major race in 1881 and for a time, was the most famous black athlete in the united states. women raced, too. there were six-day women's races. the women though, they had a special problem because the victorian guilded age conventions of the time demanded they wear a full length skirts or dresses usually of kind of a heavy velvet. you know, god forbid we see their shapely calves. the women's races were quite popular as well. they were at a disadvantage. let's just put it that way. in 1880, it looked like the history of pedestrian, that pe dis ranism would last forever. it really was de facto america's national past time. but several things happened that led to its demise. one, there were gambling scandals. as it became more popular with the public, pedestrianism also became more popular with gamblers. there were all kinds of ways to gamble on a match. who would be the first one to drop out. who would finish last. some of the lesser pedestrians would collude with gamblers and fix

many of the pedestrians died broke. pedestrianism set standards both good and bad. really by 1890 pedestrianism was all but dead. it was also killed by baseball. the national league was founded with other teams. the teams would quit the season halfway through if they knew they weren't going to win the pen nept. why take the road trip to st. louis. that sort of thing. if they got fogt they decided they needed to organize this. the first thing they did was to impose a salary cap of $2500 a season. they also imposed the notorious reserve clause. this was a clause in every player's contract that bound him to his team in perpetuity. you could never be a free agent. you could only be traded or released, and this persisted until about 1975, the reserve clause. it was a controversial thing, but it solidified baseball. by 1890 the national league had eight teams and only one of those eight teams is not still with us. the cleveland spiders, unfortunately, it would be nice to have the spiders, but the other teams, and i have to write them down. braves, cubs, dodgers, giants, p

there's really insignificant traffic control pedestrian control we need desperately widened sidewalks every time a convention is in the blocks howard street the traffic the muni is ridiculous. because it is an obstruction of the main thoroughfare we have the world's most tim i do control officers they don't yell at the pedestrians to stop blocking the traffic we need a lot of attention paid if increase no real development agency no more the planning commission has to convene and hearing who do we go to. it because what is in the eir is kind of insulting it doesn't say those are valid conditions the situation is in a bad condition the flow of traffic is not a valid condition and because the construction is not a condition. so not so thank you >> thank you. is there any additional public comment oak seeing none, public comment is closed. i want to thank the mucking team for your presentation and the public that came out i agree with wholeheartedly the team is taking this seriously i appreciate you characterize the design to the project it is not feeling going to to hearing the community

in 1880, it looked like the history of pedestrian -- that pedestrianism would last forever. it really was de facto america's national past time. but several things happen that led to its demise. one there were gambling scandals as it game more popular with the public, it became more popular with gamblers. there were all kinds of ways to wager. you could wager on who would be the first to drop out, who would finish last. so many different ways. some of the lesser pedestrians would collude with gamblers and fix races. agree to be the first to drop out the bookie takes the bets on it and splits the winnings with the pedestrian and this began to erode public confidence. there were drug scandals. performance-enhancing drugs it's so good that we have eradicated that from modern sports. westin was caught chewing cocoa leaves while he was walking to keep him away. orders. which is a pretty standard excuse these days. i didn't know what i was taking basically was his excuse. but, the biggest down fall, two things, really, contributed to the downfall of pedestrianism, and one was in 1

in 1880, it looked like the history of pedestrian, that pedestrianism would last forever. it really was de facto america's national past time. but several things happened that led to its demise. one, there were gambling scandals. as it became more popular with the public, pedestrianism also became more popular with gamblers. there were all kinds of ways to gamble on a match. you could wager on who would be the first one to drop out. who would be the first one to drop out. who would finish last. some of the lesser pedestrians would collude with gamblers and fix races. agree to be the first one to drop out. bookie takes the bets on it and then splits the winnings with the pedestrian. this began to erode public confidence. there were also drug scandals. performance enhancing drugs. you know, it's just so good that we've eradicated that. from modern sports. but in 1876, edward westin, the famous pedestrian, was caught chewing coca leaves while walking on the track as a stimulant to apparently keep him awake. he said only did it on his doctor's orders. which is a pretty standar

side there are all important green lines for pedestrians people have to move between buses and trucks and there's a connection to the ybdz across mission street to the playground that's a hidden jewel accessed by a in their pedestrian bridge that goes to the park. along going east and west along howard street we have a situation that business pull off to the side as seen in the photographs those are deep and dark lit spaces that are used for parking and for drop-offs and accruing a pedestrian conflicts as we try to move along with length from third to figure out street and back and forth so to show you the design concept that's evolved as talked about through the series even if community meetings and work with the city and the moscone sf travel operations group one critical issue is below grade f this is removing the gardens and playground in yellow you see two exhibition spaces that are connected with a ballroom in between them this is one of the great limitations of the operations from moscone this is to unit those two spaces and remove the ballroom and making a contiguous says that

it's a crosswalk that would yield to pedestrian in a crosswalk. would it be added an extra stoplight that would be as the process. >> can i ask a question as a follow up. we've all been down to market street and seen news reports of bicyclist and running and mowing down pedestrians. these things, i'm not making this up. but at the same time, i'm happy that you are here though. we all want to help make it successful. so in speaking to that, the fact that adhering to the current standards for well, they are just going to have to wait or ensure that these bicyclist, the way they are going down, it's not like a standard for pedestrian. they are a moving vehicle themselves. so saying that it's okay, we have a current regulation in place, they are just going to that and during multiple mid-point, not just one because these are long stretches here. just leaving it to that, that's being to the point where you are waiting for it to be reactive measures instead of proactive measures. what is in place to be possibly be pro act identify ct -- protective about

mind if i buy a $300 trading card of a pedestrian? ist not like it's going to be honus wagner and worth a million dollars some day. there are companies that reproduce vintage trading cards so i was able to get one from them, and it's in the book. which is on sale there. [ inaudible ] >> the cross country walks and the difficulty therein. yeah, there were really no marked roads. a lot of the walks cross country going east coast to west coast, also did a walk to los angeles, were done along railroad beds. a lot of the walking he did, which is even more difficult, i think, in some ways than walking on bad roads. and as i said, they really -- there were no reliable road maps. and so he would often find himself off course. one of the problems with the walk from boston to washington that he attempted to do in ten days and was four hours late he got to philadelphia and took a wrong turn and it wasn't until he reached the next town, 10, 15 miles down the line, that you realized, oh, i took the wrong road, and you just had to circle back. and

it is believed the pedestrian was on the overpass but it is not clear how exactly the pedestrian ended up on the interstate below. you can see the traffic mess. >> the traffic mess is significant. we are an hour and a half away from san leandro with two lanes shut down and the industry parkway opramp to southbound 880 and we are getting word this is a seven car pileup westbound 237 at 101 and this drive in hayward southbound 880 is packed. >> three, san francisco police believe a little girl's aunt left her in harm's way before a hit-and-run driver killed the child on friday night. he is under arrest niece died after being hit by a cash. >> tests will be performed to see if a patient at k prime minister has -- at k permanent has the first case of ebola. >> they have not revealed if the patient has visited west africa. >> a san francisco grandmother is covering from smoke after an overnight fire. a man who lived at the house heard "boom," at 1:00 o'clock am and found the garage on fire and everyone else got out. >> later this morning, there be a vote open restoring public a vote open re

so two ways for pedestrians to get from the sidewalk to the transit island. so this conceptual design is meant to illustrate how we envision accommodating stops in accommodating access to these stops for pedestrians on the sidewalk or pedestrians that want to get from the stop to the sidewalk. so what we thought was important for providing ample ways to get from the sidewalk to the transit stop knowing that a lot of times people might be trying to catch the bus, etc. these crosswalks already marked with marking similar to continue continental crosswalks and with truncated domes on each side on the raised buffer and sidewalk. the bicycle lane will angle up. they are at the same level of the sidewalk and transit bufrt -- buffer and it will accommodate the level crossing. as you will also note the raised buffer is also wider where the transit stop is located. this transit stop will be a minimum of eight 8 feet wide to accommodate the lift to be deployed from the transit vehicle. this next slide illustrates a little bit in more detail the mid-block crossings that

is surfing between the two zones of pedestrians and cars. and it used to be i have to watch even after the light turns green for me. i watch for cars. these days i stop and i watch between cars and make sure that there are no bicyclist barreling down on me. the reason i want to say this is, i had a friend who was on a motor scooter and she was hit by a car, a drunk driver. she lost her leg. and august insurance is $15,000. okay. what happened is bicyclist don't have insurance. okay. if we get hit as a pedestrian, who is going to cover our cost? okay? how is this going to affect our further quality of life? thank you. >> thank you. is there nin any other public comment in the audience ? any public comment on the bridge line? no. okay. thank you very much for your presentation. moving ahead to the next item on our agenda. we have item 8. a history of the disability rights movement. information item. this is a presentation of a serum internship project researching the history of the disability rights movement from the perspective of a youth wit

that are not going to pay attention will view and use this as a freeway it's not a freeway a major pedestrian and traffic thoroughfare that must be right handed for all the modes of transportation and consider people kwhor walking and riding as well as the speedometer so today, we're here on the establishment of a traffic signal but we know that no traffic signal in and of itself nor stop sign will ever create the level of safety we all want to have happy. so it is to be complimented by other things we do including the reduction of speed here on the sunset boulevard that's been at 35 mile-per-hour historically and is now we are reducing it to thirty mile-per-hour and at the same time, we have two additional streets where is it will be merry rag and marion by the end of next year. those combined with the reduction of speed here but with a constant education from not only our supervisors and sfmta our walk sf first and police department but also the entire city has to pay attention to this whether it's a street if district 6, in selma or downtown in the tenderloin or in the sunset we're committ

the project also includes two pedestrian bridges located above howard street framing in the main conference center brown the north and south building the eastern bridge will be partially enclosed and the pedestrians will be moving between the public walkway and improving the small businesses on the north and south blocks it will be designed to function as an expansion of the small businesses and touch on the children's parks it includes significant public realm improvements adjacent to the site and howard will have a pickup and drop off facility. slafrl third street will be improved of the off street area it will help to break up the streets and increase the activities located within the interior of the lot and create an small business in the form of a terrace that is occupant by restaurant at the yerba buena gardens. the project will include significant improvements as to the children's garden south of how are you. in addition to the eir there are several luldz the adaptation of the finding pursuant to sequa and the planning section from the ground floor currents and this motion will need

and so in that way it's very much like old pedestrianism was. i think competitive race walking was -- was in the first modern olympics in 1896, was it? 1896 and one of the few sports and maybe the only sport that has been in every single olympics since then there has been race walking. and so you can really see a direct line from the old time pedestrianism to modern race walk but in a larger sense you can see the direct line from the idea of sport as entertainment the idea that people attend a sporting event not just to watch the event but to see the fireworks and watch the scoreboard and hear the -- you know, hear the music between plays. the music all the time it is so loud i don't know why it is so loud in stadiums today. you can't even talk but that's just my thing. but you really do see a direct line between pedestrianism and modern professional sports. and most of the pedestrians tried to switch to bicycles but they weren't very good at it. but two of the pedestrians, edward westin and daniel o'leary they continued to stage walking expedit

safety and the program is benefiting from the walk first and the projects to identify the pedestrian high injury network. there are large walk first and zero place holders one of the things that is an option for the committee to consider the vision zero committee could officially list the projects and forward the list of recommendations to the plans and projects for allocation since there's significant place holder and 50 percent more in prop k you funds over the next 5 years as in the last 5 years we want to make sure that the resources in place when the projects are identified and ready to go into the ground. with that, i'm going to turn it over to maria >> we're almost there too more educates the last two categories are transportation and parking management and the transportation land use categories they're two of the other small categories in prop k they call it the fruit and vegetables brakt basket a lot of eligible holders but a lot of things come out of them the p d m parking management we've funded the 70 environment work on things like commuter outreach practice writing thes

the quality of the materials will be evidence at the pedestrian scale. in this view you see the retail component on fulsome street again activate the street frontage. and then on the shipley street we really tried to break the massing of the project more appropriate to the scale of shipley street by alternatively the colors and using the balconies to break down those elements. so in comparison we see the existing condition at the top and what we feel is a very active contribution to the architecture character of this area going forward. and finally another detail the shipley facade again, we feel the high quality of the metals and balconies screens. thank you. >> okay opening it open this up for public comment please line up on the screen side of the room (calling names). >> good afternoon, commissioners hi, i'm rob pool i'm speaking on behalf of off one hundred and thirty members commissioner president wu to speaking speak here today. true mark printed 24 project to us almost a year ago and our committee way enthusiastic about the project we think it is

you mind if i buy a $3 hundr00 f a pedestrian? it's not like it's honus wagner and be worth $100 million one day. there are companies that reproduce vintage trading cards. i was able to get one from them, and it's in the book which is on sale there. [ laughter ] >> yes? >> those who walked, were there special highways? >> the cross-country walks and the difficulty therein. yeah, there were no -- there weren't even -- there were really no marked roads. a lot of them walked cross country, especially going east coast to west coast. he also did a walk to los angeles, were done along railroad beds. a lot of the walking he did which -- which is even more difficult, i think, in some ways than walking on bad roads. and as i said, they really -- there were no reliable roadmaps. and so he would often find himself off course. one of the problems with the walk from boston to washington that he attempteded to do in ten days and was four hours late, he got to philadelphia and took a wrong turn. and it wasn't until you reached the next town, 10,

also many of the pedestrians guys. they had sponsored. they had to find somebody to put up the $100 entry fee author th for them. i imagine it was difficult to people to find someone willing to help them pay the $100 entrance fee. yes. >> i think you mentioned the d pedestrians, there were trading cars. did you find any of those? >> i was able to find -- the question was about pedestrians on trading cards. yes, i was able to find a reproduced one. the originals are actually quite expensive. they can be 2, $300. as i said my books don't generate -- it's a tough one to pass -- to get past the wife. do you mind if i 3 a $300 trading card of a pedestrian. it's not like it's going to be honus wagner. there are countries that reproduce vintage trading cards. i as warizos able to get one fr. it's on sale there westinn would find a backer or somebody willing to put up $10,000 and was confident he could finish the race, finish the walk from portland maine to washington in less than 30 days and find another gambler who was tolli willing to say he c

was in the marked pedestrian crosswalk. it's obviously something they are looking into. they are doing a very thorough investigation. they have been out here for about six hours and they are asking anyone with information or anyone who may have had cellphone video of this accident to give them a call. live in oakland, christina rendon, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> and now to our continuing coverage of the napa quake. a new look at surveillance video shot sunday morning as the earthquake hit. you are looking at the commissary building at the train yard. the video is just another reminder of how powerful this earthquake was. napa valley businesses are hoping for a big labor day weekend crowd. six days after the 6.0 magnitude earthquake rocked the region. labor day weekend and the start of the grape harvest are usually two big draws for visitors. today businesses recovering from the quake spruced up their fronts to let tourists know they are open and ready for business. >> every hotel, i have gotten many calls to ask, is it okay t

i hold seat no. 4 on the pedestrian safety advisory committee representing the pedestrian and safety needs of people with disabilities and seniors in the city and county of san francisco. i come here on this point and open public comment to announce to you that a collaborative group has been created in san francisco to represent the transportation safety needs of seniors and people with disabilities. it's called transit justice. a peer of yours on the commission is a member of it that meets on the second wednesday of each month. in an available office of a disability non-profit in the san francisco city. so, it is addressing general topics of improvement on pedestrian safety and recent interest is also muni free muni passes for seniors and people with disabilities. so additional information can be available for me or from the chair of this group pira of senior and disability action. that is my public comment. thank you. >> thank you. next we have howard chad ner. >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you. howard chad ner. i have spoken before many times about how the city's campaign aga

on the crosswalk but against the pedestrian signal. she left mi'yana in the middle of the street to get her twin brother and that's when the girl was hit by a car that kept on going. police are looking for that driver. you see a memorial for the 2-year-old, stuffed animals, posters, balloons. police arrest aunt, 25-year-old lorysah gage. over the weekend, family members passing out flyers about the hit-and-run. gage had just taken the kids to watch "teenage mutant ninja turtles" when the girl was killed. the question is whether the driver knew he or she hit the girl, the driver had the green light when it happened. >> obviously a tragic incident, emotional, as you can imagine with the arrest of the aunt and the passing of her niece and someone's 2-year-old daughter. >> reporter: again, police looking for the driver of the car that hit mi'yana, shown in this video. it's a mid 1990s white four-door sedan, could be a camry, lexus, honda with a dark mismatched bumper. back here live, one of the posters in that memorial for mi'yana. the aun

walk san francisco is a pedestrian organization we work to advocate for safer better streets in san francisco we worked with the city and our community partners to announce the goal of vision zero earlier this year and since then it's been incredible to see the city agencies that have come together and that's really important and inspiring symbol that our city staff and agencies and elected officials are dedicated to what is best for the community in this case eliminating traffic facilities in 10 years. everyday there is about one million trips taken in san francisco whether you're driving, biking over and over transit all of our trips start and end with walking unfortunately 3 people are hit by cars a day while walking in san francisco. as director reiskin mentioned are profitableable we're at the corner where one appreciable accidents happened it's incredible to see the city put in a signal to help prevent collisions and lower the speedometer on this boulevard and have signals on all intersections those are the sort of projects that community members want to see more of you know that engine